Whew. Talk about cutting it fine. 40 minutes until the competition
deadline, but I've just managed to finish my first prototype!
Presenting the TVMap: mixing up the BBC's TV listings (and Bleb's feeds
for other channels) with Google Maps, to produce a map that shows what
locations will be on TV soon. Interested in all programs about Abu
Dhabi? No problem, it'll email you about them. Want to know if there's
anything about Canada on today? Sure, not a problem.
This first prototype version is showing a static display for October
3rd, but in the next day or so it'll get features like showing up to six
days ahead, and email and RSS location-based alerts ("let me know when
there's a program within 50 miles of Vienna").
http://tvmap.thomasscott.net/
It works by parsing out all proper names from the descriptions of
programs and running them against a subset of world GNIS data -- it
won't pick up every reference, and right now a couple of things have to
be cleaned by hand (for example, Chucklevision doesn't take place *in*
Barry...), but some quick filters should sort that out in the next
couple of days.
Tomorrow (after I've dealt with little things like sleep!) the good
stuff gets added!
Cheers,
Tom
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